How To Create Metal Text Effect Photoshop – Easy Tutorial

As per my knowledge and experience in terms of Photoshop, today I have chosen another amazing Photoshop text effect which is indeed very popular. So, in this short video tutorial I’ll be showing you the exact way of creating metal text effect Photoshop in less than 5 minutes.

The most important thing for me is that how to make our text more attractive. So, as you can see that I’ll apply metallic text effect or steel text effect only on outline of our text. But that doesn’t mean that you cannot apply metal text effect on your whole text.

We can use as many steel or metallic textures as per our requirements and needs and make a complete metallic looking text. But in my case I only use this effect on outer side and the inner texture which I am using is black.

One more thing which I wanted to discuss is that if you want to create a complete steel text effect Photoshop then you’ll need to select steel texture rather than Black and apply all the effects which I have explained you in detail in this short video tutorial.

So, it’s totally depends on you which texture you like the most for your project. Hope you understand the terminology of creating metal text effect Photoshop. Keep concentrating on this easy tutorial for more details.

Easy Steps To Create Metal Text Effect Photoshop

Step 1

Select Horizontal Type Tool on your Toolbar or press Ctrl + T to activate this tool and type any text. The Font which I am using is Aharoni and the Size is 292.93 Pt but you can use any font. Now Press Ctrl+ A for whole selection of your text and centralize it horizontally and vertically.

Step 2

Now go to Blending Options>>Outer Glow, your Blend Mode must be Normal and Opacity should be 100 %>>Spread 15%>>Size 15PX and Color is 2429d9.

Step 3

Now I am going to play with Drop Shadow and set Blend Mode to Normal>>Distance is 13 PX and Spread should be around 23 %>>Size 47 PX and Opacity is 100 %.

Step 5

It’s time to call out the texture file from the computer >>Select Move Tool for your Tools or Press Ctrl + V to active this feature, with the help of this move the texture on main file, simply by drag and drop.

Step 6

Now Right Click on the texture Layer and Go to Layer Menu and Choose Create Clipping Mask option or Press Ctrl+ G from your keyboard to apply particular pattern for adding more beauty.

Step 8

Hue must be 259 and Saturation should be around 6. Your text effect is ready to rock. Another important tip for you guys is you can easily create different types of dynamic text with same technique but you made a little change in last step when you are going to change the color of particular text with the help of Hue and Saturation.

Do not check the color option so, give appropriate values to Hue & Saturation. With this technique you can make amazing outlines of your text with variety of different colors including Gold.

Conclusion

Metal text effect Photoshop can worth the design of your text. So, that i have tried to explain the related techniques in a very fundamental way. If you have any queries related to this tutorial do share your views in comment section and don’t forget to share it on Social Media.

This is an amazing text effect but i made a little change in it. I use to apply metallic text effect only on outline of that text but if somebody need to apply it on whole text then they simply use steel texture rather than black.